The claim

Apparently NASA has “ all but admitted ” that the moon landing was fake

Our conclusion

In the article with the claim there is only a collection of false claims and half-truths that do not even with much good will allow the conclusion that NASA has admitted that the moon landing was faked.

There are legitimate news sites and satire sites.
And then there are sites that seem to report something seriously, but are so full of false claims and have published a lot of false news in the past that their claims can no longer be taken seriously. A site of this type is now spreading the claim that NASA has " all but admitted " that the moon landing was a fake - but the bullet points mentioned about the claims do not hold water.

The claim

On various platforms, relevant accounts mainly publish the articles from “ Truth11 ” (slogan: “Armed with the truth, united we stand. The truth will set us free.”) and “ NWO Report ” (slogan: “Conservative News Alternative Nwo News “), which, however, have exactly the same wording and are based on a single source: an article from the “ News Punch ” site.

While the headline of the article and its copies on other right-wing conservative and conspiracy-telling sites still say that NASA has “ finally revealed the truth about faked moon landings ,” there is no mention of that in the article: it suddenly just says that they did “ as good as admitted ”.

The arguments listed in the article:

  • No human being has ever been higher than 1,000 miles (approx. 1,609 km) above sea level
  • The moon landing could not have been recorded at all because there were no video recorders yet
  • NASA lost the technology to fly to the moon, it was destroyed, but NASA doesn't say by whom or why
  • The original recordings of the moon landing have also disappeared
  • Several other well-known claims that we have already covered in articles (see HERE and HERE )

Fact check on the individual claims

  • No human being has ever been higher than 1,000 miles (approx. 1,609 km) above sea level

There are even some people who were higher enough to either set foot on the moon or orbit it, plus tens of thousands of NASA employees who helped with and monitored the missions - and of course the Soviet Union, which was competing in space travel at the time, which immediately made it public would have done if the USA had cheated on lunar missions.

So simply claiming without further evidence that no one has ever flown that high is a pretty ignorant claim that ignores the fact that thousands of employees were involved and that the competition also took a look at it - because it would have been a Holy Grail for the Soviet Union if they had caught the US cheating.

  • The moon landing could not have been recorded at all because there were no video recorders yet

Although the true triumph of VCRs only began in the 1980s, the technology has been around since the 1960s , and in 1969, when the first moon landing took place, there were already inexpensive VCRs from Sony; the technology was also used by NASA.

In a July 2, 2019 press conference posted by NASA on YouTube, NASA engineer Dick Nafzger described the technical challenges of televising the Apollo 11 moon landing.

  • NASA lost the technology to fly to the moon, it was destroyed, but NASA doesn't say by whom or why

The claim that the technology was “lost” is very common and sounds as if it just accidentally ended up in the trash can. But things are a little different, as Robert Frost, instructor and flight controller at NASA, explained :

Why does it take three years to develop a new car when it shares 90% of its “DNA” with the previous model?

Why does it take six years to develop a new aircraft when it shares 90% of its “DNA” with the previous model? The answer is that they are complex devices.

A launch vehicle and spacecraft intended to go to the Moon are much more complex and operate on the edge of possibility, where there is little tolerance for inaccuracies and errors. When you operate at the edge of what is possible, thousands of hours are spent on testing and optimization.

The development and operations teams gain expertise that no one else in the world has. Without this specialist knowledge, the vehicle cannot be built or operated. Operating a space mission requires reams of paper in the form of flight rules and operating procedures.

These rules and procedures have been developed through thousands of hours of testing and simulation. A change to the vehicle can run like a common thread through these documents. The Saturn V rocket consisted of over three million parts.

The command and service modules and the lunar module consisted of millions more parts. A single person cannot imagine how many details are required to assemble and operate these vehicles. When the Apollo program ended, the factories that assembled these vehicles were reorganized or shut down.



The devices were dismantled. The molds were destroyed. The technicians, engineers, scientists and air traffic controllers moved on to other tasks. Over time, some of the materials used became unnecessary. If we said today, "Let's build another Saturn V rocket and an Apollo CSM/LEM and go to the moon," we couldn't just pull out the blueprints and bend and cut metal. We don't have the factories or the tools.

We don't have the materials. We don't have the expertise to understand how the real vehicle differs from the drawings. We do not have the expertise to operate the vehicle. We would have to replace modern materials.

This changes the vehicle. It changes the mass, it changes the stresses and strains, it changes the interactions. It changes the possible malfunctions. It changes the capabilities of the vehicle. We would have to spend a few years redeveloping the know-how.

We would have to carry out new tests and simulations. We would have to develop new flight rules and procedures. We would have to certify new air traffic controllers and crews. We would essentially be building a new vehicle.

So it's a question of time and cost. NASA's workforce is a tenth of what it once was, and resources are limited. The last 50 years have been used to build space shuttles and the International Space Station, which is why the technology to bring people back to the moon would first have to be developed again, and under difficult conditions: fewer personnel, less funding.

  • The original recordings of the moon landing have also disappeared

In fact, the original Apollo 11 data tapes (“original” in the sense that they directly recorded the data transmitted from the Moon) are no longer traceable. According to NASA , the most likely scenario is that program managers determined that the tapes were no longer needed - since all the videos and data were recorded elsewhere.

This is an annoying loss, but not a particularly bad one, since only the telemetry tapes can no longer be found, which in this case refers to the low-resolution television transmission, which is certainly available, namely recorded by many TV stations no longer the original “slow scan data” .

This “slow scan” data (10 frames per second) was transmitted through space from the Moon back to Earth, to California and Australia, and then converted into a format for live television (30 frames per second). Unfortunately, the equipment used to convert the signal caused some inevitable loss of image quality, but NASA still has at least the first video recordings, as well as the technically important tapes containing, for example, the voice and biomedical recordings.

The source of the claim

Finally, we would like to address the site “ News Punch ” that published the claim and is not a blank slate. Until 2018, the site was called “Your News Wire” and was a cornucopia of self-made fake news , until filters on Facebook and Google made it much less widespread.

But even under the new name, false news continues to be diligently produced, from neurological damage to firefighters caused by 5G to Bill Gates, who allegedly refused to have his children vaccinated - any topic is fine as long as certain circles can get upset about it.

Conclusion

The “News Punch” site chose the timing of publication of its article with the false claims very carefully:
it appeared four days before the 53rd anniversary of the moon landing, so that it appears in Google search results in good time when people google the moon landing - and thus will definitely get more clicks.

However, “News Punch” and its predecessor “Your News Wire” are very well known for deliberately producing false reports for relevant circles, and the claims in their articles about the moon landing are anything but accurate and can therefore be classified as fake.

Article image: Unsplash / History in HD
Additional source: Lead Stories


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